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6 GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH Darling... It’s Too Late Suicide Squeeze (2015)
Welcome to the 20’s for another day of fun and good waves. This time, sponsoring are the Guantanamo Baywatch in their latest album, Darling It’s Too Late, and we cannot say that the journey is itself a new thing. The Portland trio presents us with a revivalist and light work, the foundations of which are nearly 100 years in the past, the iconic movement of rock generation, specifically in your shed associated with the surf and the Californian style. Filled with vibrant sounds and clichés, it is with some humor that the issues are well versed with both repetitive as captivating. Overall, it’s a good day, but takes too intricate style to please everyone, although it has everything to be the traveling companion of a summer love. FOR FANS OF:
Hunx, The Ramones, Wax Idols
NUNO TEIXEIRA
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GULFER What Gives?
Texas Is Funny (2015)
Maybe you’ve heard of Gulfer, maybe you’re a fan or you’ve only just tuned in. Either way, What Gives? will make for an intriguing listen. The Montreal band typically associated with math rock and emo sounds, have whipped out a seven song LP that is a multitude of contradictions and left turns. The frequent changes in tempo and unusual time signatures make the songs sound defiantly long for the album’s length, each track changing from soft stokes to thrashing riffs and vocals that are delivered with uninhibited poignancy, as in closing track “Almost Sterling”. The boisterous energy of “Getting Hit by Parked Cars” alongside the skilfully placed hypnotic instrumentals “PostMolly” and “Altalalaval” make for an idiosyncratic blend of sound that does not disappoint. What Gives? is a perfect example of how Gulfer have mastered their sound and how they deliver it with density and deliberation. FOR FANS OF:
STELLA ELIADOU
Nai Harvest, Prawn, I Kill Giants
HEALTH Death Magic
Loma Vista (2015)
It’s been a while since LA’s noise rockers HEALTH’s last album. In those six years they’ve kept working, releasing their second remix album and what’s probably one the biggest projects in their ten-year career – composing the music for the Rockstar game Max Payne 3. Here’s a good example where maturity and increase value of craftsmanship actually exist. Death Magic is not just a crazy-ass noise record – although that still exists. This a great pop record. Death Magic is an amazingly crafted pop album that can’t be possibility treated as a guilty pleasure since it has one foot on the experimental realm and isn’t at all detached from the band’s singularity. Full of anthems – “Life” could probably represent this generation – and with a fucking stellar production. Almost too good to be true. FOR FANS OF:
TIAGO MOREIRA
Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode
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